On Fri, 21 May 1999, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:

> It seems odd that they'd use FreeBSD as a model for kernel development
> when they're not on an Intel platform and when they're using Mach. Can
> someone comment on this? Have the FreeBSD folks been careful to preserve
> machine independence despite their mostly single-platform target?

However, FreeBSD still uses the mach VM, which NetBSD doesn' which is
the only reason I'd think they would follow it... And FreeBSD is still
portable, but not to the same degree as NetBSD.

However, this page was probably just written by some web page guy and a
dude who scribbled some notes just not wanting to upset anyone.